Introduction

This blog explored the status of the world largest economies and well-developed country United States in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data description

The data comes from Our World in Data on github. The table below is the variables and there corresponding description.

United States and Covid

To explore the key aspects in terms of the daily confirmed cases, daily confirmed deaths cases and daily hospital cases over time in the US.

# A tibble: 601 × 62
   iso_code continent     location    date       total_cases new_cases
   <chr>    <chr>         <chr>       <date>           <dbl>     <dbl>
 1 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-22           1        NA
 2 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-23           1         0
 3 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-24           2         1
 4 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-25           2         0
 5 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-26           5         3
 6 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-27           5         0
 7 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-28           5         0
 8 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-29           6         1
 9 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-30           6         0
10 USA      North America United Sta… 2020-01-31           8         2
# … with 591 more rows, and 56 more variables:
#   new_cases_smoothed <dbl>, total_deaths <dbl>, new_deaths <dbl>,
#   new_deaths_smoothed <dbl>, total_cases_per_million <dbl>,
#   new_cases_per_million <dbl>,
#   new_cases_smoothed_per_million <dbl>,
#   total_deaths_per_million <dbl>, new_deaths_per_million <dbl>,
#   new_deaths_smoothed_per_million <dbl>, reproduction_rate <dbl>, …

New Cases: - US is experiencing the second major wave of confirmed new cases. - On 02 Jan 2021, the daily confirmed cases reached the peak of 300462 cases.

New death: - In general, there is a positive relationship between confirmed daily cases and daily confirmed deaths. - The first wave of death started from April 2020 while the confirmed cases were relatively low.

New hospital: - The negative cases of new_hospital represented people who no longer need to be monitored in the hospital - The number of people in hospital was very high, as may people were panicking about the COVID-19.

Vaccinations in United States

United States has the world leading position in health care, medical treatment and pharmaceuticals markets (Pharmapproach,2020)

There are three authorized and recommended vaccines in US. They are BioNTech, Pfizer vaccine, Johnson & Johnson vaccine and Moderna, NIAID vaccine. (CDC, 2021) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention USA, that all these are safe, effective and reduce the risk of severe illness caused by Covid-19. More information about US vaccination here.

This animation demonstrates the vaccination status in the US, with light blue represents people who had vaccinated at lease 1 dose, dark blue of people who had been fully vaccinated.

Reference

Packages

C. Sievert. Interactive Web-Based Data Visualization with R, plotly, and shiny. Chapman and Hall/CRC Florida, 2020.

Hadley Wickham (2021). tidyr: Tidy Messy Data. R package version 1.1.3. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidyr

Thomas Lin Pedersen and David Robinson (2020). gganimate: A Grammar of Animated Graphics. R package version 1.0.7. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gganimate

Jeroen Ooms (2021). gifski: Highest Quality GIF Encoder. R package version 1.4.3-1. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=gifski

Wickham et al., (2019). Welcome to the tidyverse. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1686, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01686

Yihui Xie, Joe Cheng and Xianying Tan (2021). DT: A Wrapper of the JavaScript Library ‘DataTables’. R package version 0.18. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DT

Sources

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines.html

https://www.pharmapproach.com/15-astonishing-statistics-and-facts-about-u-s-pharmaceutical-industry/

COVID-19 in the United States